How Laser Frequency Combs Transformed Basic Scientific Research
Although most people have never heard of laser frequency combs, they have become essential to advancing important light-based research and have been instrumental to the…
Atomic Clock News
New Approach May Enable Portable Atomic Clocks
A team of researchers from MIT and Draper Laboratory has developed a new approach to atomic timekeeping that may enable more stable and accurate portable…
Experimental Strontium Atomic Clock Sets New Records
The JILA strontium atomic clock has set new world records for both precision and stability, improving precision by 50 percent from the previous record holder…
Atomic Clock Simulates Quantum Magnetism
For the first time, a team of scientists at JILA have used an atomic clock as a quantum simulator, mimicking the behavior of a different,…
Proposed Thorium Neutron-Based Clock Would be Accurate for Billions of Years
Scientists are proposing the building of a hyper-accurate nuclear clock that would lose only one-tenth of a second over 14 billion years, the current age…
